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Definition of Thighbones
1. thighbone [n] - See also: thighbone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thighbones
Literary usage of Thighbones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of England from the accession of James the second by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1867)
"... the spade hare not seldom turned up ghastly memorials of the slaughter, skulls,
and thighbones, and strange weapons made out of implements of husbandry. ..."
2. The Price of Peace by Stinson Jarvis (1921)
"The American carvings often show his " X " name as two crossed thighbones, as in
the Yucatan carvings pictured in 4 Bancroft, p. 203, where our Death god is ..."
3. Wonders of Geology; Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena: Or A by Gideon Algernon Mantell (1848)
"J The BUS : from rugate specimens from the wealden consist of teeth, dorsal and
caudal vertebrae, thighbones, and other bones of the extremities ..."
4. Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments by Sophocles, Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1891)
"1OH |M]po£=|vnp£wv in 1008,—thighbones, with some flesh on them. ... was the
sacrificial word, denoting thighbones, with so much flesh as the sacri- ficer ..."
5. History of Pittsburgh and Environs: From Prehistoric Days to the Beginning by George Thornton Fleming (1922)
"The thighbones were first discovered, the head lying towards the center. The skulls
were in good condition; the teeth in both jaws well preserved. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Human Skeleton: (including the Joints). by George Murray Humphry (1858)
"... and with its crura resting upon the thighbones. The shape of the curve of the
lower division of the ring is different from that of the upper one, ..."
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